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Understanding and working with bereavement

01 October 2002

Mental Health Practice

CPD

Although we all experience bereavement at some point in our lives, the experience of bereavement is unique to everyone. To achieve a natural resolution, a person...

Depression: Nature, assessment and treatment using behavioural activation (Part 2)

01 September 2002

Mental Health Practice

CPD

This is the second in a two-part Continuing Professional Development article on behavioural activation as a relatively new treatment intervention for depression....

Depression: Nature, assessment and treatment using behavioural activation (Part 1)

01 July 2002

Mental Health Practice

CPD

This two-part Continuing Professional Development article presents the treatment of behavioural activation as a justifiable treatment intervention for depression....

Stress in psychiatric nursing: fact or fiction?

10 November 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Psychiatric nurses are not as stressed in their work as most research seems to indicate. The stress that does exist relates to organisational, rather than...

Intensive care for acute mental illness

31 May 1995

Nursing Standard

Clinical mental health

This article describes and evaluates a project at Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff which was set up to provide a safe and therapeutic short-term environment for...

Suicidal mental health inpatients: principal approaches to care

01 June 2002

Mental Health Practice

CPD

There are two principal approaches to providing care for suicidal mental health inpatients, these are: special, close or non-routine observation and...

Nursing interventions for the management of patients with mania

10 January 2006

Nursing Standard

Art &science mental health

This article explores mania, a serious and often chronic illness that is mostly related to bipolar disorder but can present by itself or as a symptom of other...

Observing nurse-patient interaction

08 April 1998

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes an observational study of nurses’ interactions with mentally ill young people in a regional adolescent unit. Nurses initiated more than twice...

Aggressive incidents on a psychiatric intensive care unit

17 May 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim Although factors related to inpatient aggression have been extensively studied, there is relatively little specific information about violence in intensive care,...

Unrestricted access to mental health services

11 September 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background This study examines referrals to a nurse-led, community-based, acute psychiatric assessment and treatment centre in the north west of England which...